Last week, we did an experiment with our robots. We had to physically measure the distance it ran through, and then compare it to the the distance ran the computer had. Afterwards, using the error formula, we computed our distance into the computer’s and had a margin of error.
At first, we made a mistake on the calculations and had a huge margin of error. It did not make sense since we physically measured the distance and knew that the margin could not get that big. After, we had help from the professor, we figured our mistake and came up with this computation: .003/.117257= 0.0255. It basically means that we had 2% margin of error. Indeed, the computer measured 55cm (we had to convert from meters to centimeters in order to compare); and we had sensibly 57cm.
This made me curious about the programming and all the aspects of it i still don’t understand; and I will keep on looking into it to satisfy that awaken curiosity.
